ADA Rotterdam Announcementshttp://www.adarotterdam.nlLatest Announcementsen-usWed, 26 Nov 2014 15:11:08 +0100Rotterdam book launch &#39;Pick up this book&#39;http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/49-book-launch-pick-book
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<p><span class="caps">ADA</span> cordially invites you to join us in celebrating the Rotterdam launch of our publication <em>Pick up this book</em>. With this publication we seek to address questions that emerged in the periphery of our collective practice, but became a pivotal interest, concerning hospitality and the documentation of our often ephemeral research based projects. </p>
<p>During the book launch you&#8217;ll have the opportunity to have a look at the book in our reading room. We will also screen the video <em>a pottery produced by five potters at once (silent attempt)</em>, by Koki Tanaka, a work dealing with the topic of collective production. A masseur will be present for instant relief of muscle tension. </p>
<p><em>Pick up this book</em> contains six texts written by ADA&#8217;s members; focusing on a <a href="http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_reports/69-breakfast-noon-oda-projesi-and-aba">breakfast discussion we organised in Berlin</a>, we set ourselves the task of writing from memory what happened on that day, resulting in completely different reports. These texts are complemented by the writer and artist Maria Barnas, whom we invited to respond to the event. The publication also includes work by two thinkers who have provided us with ideas, which profoundly shaped our thinking and formed a continuous presence during our <a href="http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_reports/70-would-it-be-better-if-we-worked-groups-two">working period in Berlin</a>: the text <em>Hostipitality</em> by Jacques Derrida and <em>Unbounded, Limit’s Possibilities</em>, a lecture by Irit Rogoff, of which a transcription is included. </p>
<p><em>Pick up this book</em> is thoughtfully designed by <a href="http://www.dongyounglee.com/index.php/recently-2013/please-pick-up-this-book-/">Dongyoung Lee</a>. Throughout the book the reader will find instructional sentences on welcoming the guest and a series of bookmarks that can direct the use of the book as an object. </p>
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Sunday 07 December 2014 | 16:00
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info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:11:08 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/49-book-launch-pick-bookGame Group Reading Club http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/48-game-group-reading-club
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<p>Game Group Reading Club by David Maroto</p>
<p>Artists’ creative process is usually a solitary enterprise carried out in the isolation of one’s studio. In David Maroto&#8217;s new project this process has been opened up by means of the organization of a Game Group Reading Club (<span class="caps">GGRC</span>), which integrates collective participation in the creative process itself. <span class="caps">GGRC</span> was formed by a group that has been engaging in discussions concerning games, art and literature, notions of playability, participation, fiction and identification. </p>
<p>Maroto’s project is formed by three interrelated pieces: a new Gamebook (The Wheel of Fortune), a collective game event (Decide Your Destiny), and a narrative installation (La Escala de la Vida). These pieces form a hybrid artistic experiment that unites both fields of his interest, games and narrative fiction. The gamebook will be published by Onomatopee (Eindhoven). This creative process becomes public with the collaboration of the Rotterdam-based organisations of <span class="caps">ADA</span> and PrintRoom, and will find continuation during its public presentation in Onomatopee Project Space.</p>
<p>For the fourth and last <span class="caps">GGRC</span> session, coinciding with The Wheel of Fortune&#8217;s book launch in September, Maroto invites you to join him at <span class="caps">ADA</span> to discuss participation in art. The guest speaker Yoeri Guepin has selected the text The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Rancière, which critically analyses relations between seeing and passivity, looking and knowing, externality and separation. </p>
<p>Afterwards, <span class="caps">GGRC</span> participants are invited to play Decide Your Destiny, a collective game event in which an actor reads The Wheel of Fortune out aloud. The audience votes for the direction to follow in the narrative, the actions to carry out, and the answers to give to other characters. Whereas reading a book is usually a solitary activity, in Decide Your Destiny, the fate of the protagonist, even her survival, is a matter of collective responsibility.</p>
<p>David Maroto&#8217;s artistic practice unfolds around two intersections: between literature and visual arts on one hand and the use of the game as an artistic method on the other, while distilling components from the purview of psychoanalysis as a tool for reflecting on the nature of subjectivity.</p>
<p>This project is supported by <span class="caps">CBK</span> Rotterdam and Mondriaan Fonds.</p>
<p>For more information go to:http://www.davidmaroto.info/</p>
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Saturday 12 April 2014 | 15:00
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:18:04 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/48-game-group-reading-clubPick up this bookhttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/47-if-mind-were-all-there-was
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<p><span class="caps">ADA</span> participates in the exhibition <a href="http://www.kunstvereingoettingen.de/ausstellungen/air-berlin-alexanderplatz/">If Mind Were All There Was</a> at Kunstverein Göttingen, opening on Sunday 27 October at 11:30. The project is co-organised by <span class="caps">AIR</span> Berlin Alexanderplatz and includes work by former residents. The opening serves as an informal book launch for ADA&#8217;s new publication <em>Pick up this book</em>, which was conceived as a follow-up to our residency in Berlin, last year.</p>
<p>With <em>Pick up this book</em> we seek to address questions that emerged in the periphery of our collective practice, but became a pivotal interest, concerning hospitality and the documentation of our often ephemeral research based projects. The publication includes work by two thinkers who have provided us with ideas, which profoundly shaped our thinking and formed a continuous presence during our working period in Berlin: the text <em>Hostipitality</em> by Jacques Derrida and <em>Unbounded, Limit’s Possibilities</em>, a lecture by Irit Rogoff, of which a transcription is included. Focusing on a breakfast discussion we organised in Berlin, we set ourselves the task of writing from memory what happened on that day, resulting in six completely different reports, meandering between facts, associative sidetracks and interesting notions that had come up during the event. These texts are complemented by the writer and artist Maria Barnas, whom we asked to be present at the breakfast and write her response to the event. The book is presented in the exhibition space at Kunstverein Göttingen and is activated by means of instructional sentences mounted onto the walls, which, drawing on the content of the book, spatially frame it. <em>Pick up this book</em> is designed by <a href="http://www.dyleeworks.com/">Dongyoung Lee</a>.</p>
<strong>Practical Information:</strong><br>
Sunday 27 October 2013 | 11:30
<br>Kunstverein Göttingen, Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:32:00 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/47-if-mind-were-all-there-wasFigures traced in lighthttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/46-figures-traced-light
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<p><em>“Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation”</em>- James Turrell-</p>
<p>From the end of May till June, Cinema Sunset will be screening five must-see classics from famous cinematographers that applied revolutionary lighting techniques. The program consists of five films in which light plays an integral part in enhancing the movie’s overall imagery. Starting from the early 40’s up to the mid 70’s, several lighting techniques will be reviewed. The screenings will start around sunset after a short introduction. So bring your little candles and your friends to settle down for the evening…</p>
<p><strong>program</strong><br />17 May 2013 | 20.30 | <em>Day of Wrath</em><br />24 May 2013 | 20.30 | <em>Strangers on a Train</em><br />1 June 2013 | 20.30 | <em>In Cold Blood</em><br />8 June 2013 | 20.30 | <em>The Conformist</em><br />14 June 2013 | 20.30 | <em>Mean Streets</em></p>
<p><strong>17 May 2013 | 20.30 &#8211; 22.30</strong><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR24ovoqg_0">Day of Wrath</a><br />Release: 1943<br />Runtime: 97 min<br />Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer <br />Director of Photography: Karl Andersson<br />Cast: Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Anna Svierkier</p>
<p><em>Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag)</em> follows a witch hunt in a Danish village in 1623. The parson’s wife, Anne, is trying to protect an old woman accused of witchcraft which doesn’t go without consequences for herself. At a slow and lingering pace the film sketches a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia. Dreyer characteristically combines measured pace, long, horizontal pans and close-ups of faces with high contrast lighting and intense acting. <em>Day of Wrath</em> is shot in 1943 in occupied Denmark. The film is often understood as an allegory of the fascist regime, although Dreyer himself has always denied this. </p>
<p><strong>24 May 2013 | 20.30 &#8211; 22.30</strong><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfW7zD924j8">Strangers on a train</a><br />Release: 1951<br />Runtime: 101 min<br />Director: Alfred Hitchcock<br />Director of Photography: Robert Burks<br />Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker</p>
<p>Guy Haines, a well-known tennis star that wants to divorce his wife Miriam, meets a rich and strange young man Bruno Anthony on a short train trip. The psychotic Bruno confronts Guy with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder. His plan is relatively simple: the two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants disposed of. Guy mockingly dismisses the plan, but has to deal with Bruno’s mad ravings when Miriam is found dead. Robert Burks, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work for <em>Strangers on a train</em>, was Hitchcock’s favorite cinematographer. <em>Strangers on a train</em> was their first joint project. From this developed one of Hollywood&#8217;s most inspired collaborations, as well as a close personal friendship.</p>
<p><strong>1 June 2013 | 20.30 &#8211; 23.00</strong><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjIDrG-MQsc">In Cold Blood</a><br />Release: 1967<br />Runtime: 134 min<br />Director: Richard Brooks<br />Director of Photography: Conrad L. Hall<br />Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe</p>
<p>Two ex-prisoners break into a wealthy farmer&#8217;s home to rob the family of their money. When they find out there isn’t any, they kill the entire family to avoid identification. When the police trace the men down, they both seem to have a completely different memory of the crime they had committed. Pending their trial they confess their own version of the truth. The film <em>In Cold Blood</em> was based on a book by Truman Capote. Critics regard the book as a pioneering work of the true crime genre. The outstanding work of cinematographer Conrad L. Hall was nominated for an academy award. </p>
<p><strong>8 June 2013 | 20.30 &#8211; 22.30</strong><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrRoV0smaJg">The Conformist</a><br />Release: 1970<br />Runtime: 111 min<br />Director: Bernardo Bertolucci<br />Director of Photography: Vittorio Storaro<br />Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda</p>
<p>The conformist is Marcello Clerici, who is aching to ‘fit in’ in 1930’s Rome. Marcello agrees to kill a political refugee, on orders from the Fascist government, even though the victim-to-be is his college professor. The film is a character study of the kind of person who willingly &#8220;conforms&#8221; to the ideological fashions of his day. The screenplay is based on the novel <em>The Conformist</em> by Alberto Moravia. <em>The Conformist</em> is the first film in which Bernardo Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro collaborated, followed later by many noteworthy films such as <em>Last Tango in Paris</em> and <em>The Last Emperor</em>. Storaro is widely regarded as a master cinematographer. He is inspired by Goethe&#8217;s theory of colors, which focuses in part on the psychological effects that different colors have and the way in which colors influence our perceptions of different situations. </p>
<p><strong>14 June 2013 | 20.30 &#8211; 22.30</strong><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ7UwnfQ2nA">Mean Streets</a><br />Release: 1973<br />Runtime: 112 min<br />Director: Martin Scorsese<br />Director of Photography: Kent L. Wakefield<br />Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval</p>
<p><em>Mean Streets</em> is set in the Seventies in New York’s neigbourhood Little Italy. Much of the film’s street-wise dialogue comes from Scorsee’s encouragment of improvisation. The storyline focuses on Charlie Cappa a small time collector for his Uncle Giovanni. Charlie has taken personal responsibility for Johnny Boy, an anarchistic simple-minded hothead who is in financial troubles. Meanwhile Charlie maintains a secret love affair with his epileptic cousin Theresa.The cinematographer Kent Wakeford shot the film using handheld camera techniques and using innovative lighting, both of which have been very influential afterwards in American filmmaking. </p>
<strong>Practical Information:</strong><br>
Saturday 01 June 2013 | 20:30
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<br>ADA, Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Mon, 06 May 2013 23:08:01 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/46-figures-traced-lightThinking in Threes -an introduction into Asger Jorn’s thinking and writinghttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/45-thinking-threes-introduction-asger-jorns-thinking-
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<p>The Danish artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asger_Jorn">Asger Jorn</a> (1914-73) is probably best known for being a founding member of the CoBrA group (1948-51) and Internationale Situationniste (from 1957-1961). It is less well known that he also wrote over 1000 books, articles and other texts in which he discussed art theory, philosophy, architecture and many other subjects. Jorn&#8217;s writings were an attempt to develop &#8220;a complete revision of the existing philosophical system&#8221; from the perspective of an artist. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.curators-network.eu/database/db_item/id/hilde_de_bruijn">Hilde de Bruijn</a> (NL, 1971), freelance curator, and a curator at the Cobra Museum for Modern Art, will introduce Jorn’s outspoken thinking that allowed permanent dimensions of irony, pragmatism, playfulness, craving for disruption, synthesis and free-association. <a href="http://www.hildegoesasger.org">This</a> is the public platform for her curatorial research into Asger Jorn, exploring what Jorn’s boundless energy, his believe in art and creativity as integral part of life, his critical questions, underminings and suggested alternatives to the existing can mean to us today.</p>
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Monday 13 May 2013 | 19:00
- 22:00
<br>ADA, Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Mon, 06 May 2013 22:47:54 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/45-thinking-threes-introduction-asger-jorns-thinking-Who can run a Balkan marathon?http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/44-who-can-run-balkan-marathon
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<p>Smack in the middle of Rotterdam&#8217;s two annual international mega-events; the Film Festival and the Marathon, we host our very own screening marathon on the 5th of April, starting at 18:00 until around midnight.</p>
<p>The screening includes three recent films directed by three amazingly talented women from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. The films will be screened back-to-back.</p>
<p>Popcorn will be provided by the ADA-team, as well as the occasional game of table tennis for leg stretching.</p>
<p>We hope you can join us.</p>
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Friday 05 April 2013 | 18:00
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<br>ADA project space, Bree 93B, Rotterdam
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:38:52 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/44-who-can-run-balkan-marathonThis Book is a Classroomhttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/43-thisbookisaclassroom
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<p>On Sunday the 24th of March, <span class="caps">ADA</span> hosted the open reading <em>This Book is a Classroom</em>. The afternoon was based on the publication <em>We would like to learn and are working on a book&#8230;</em> edited by Lucie Kolb, Romy Rüegger, <span class="caps">HIT</span> Studio Berlin and Passenger Books.</p>
<p>The publication asks questions about the conditions, politics, performativities and intersubjectivities of knowledge production in the art world. The publication is a continuation of a series of lectures, lecture performances and seminars that Lucie Kolb and Romy Rüegger have been organizing in the framework of <a href="http://www.withwith.ch/news/">With With</a> since 2009 in Zürich. </p>
<p>For the reading in <span class="caps">ADA</span> we invited a small group of interdisciplinary readers to respond to four chapters of the book that reflect on forms of education, knowledge exchange and self-organised structures that support it. The responses could take any form such as writing, visual, performance, etc. Through these contributions our aim was to ‘re-read’ the publication and discuss its content and associated thoughts.</p>
<p>Some of the responses can be read and viewed <a href="http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_reports/72-book-classroom">here</a></p>
<strong>Practical Information:</strong><br>
Sunday 24 March 2013 | 15:00
<br>ADA project space, Bree 93B, Rotterdam
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:31:41 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/43-thisbookisaclassroomWith Oda Projesi and ABAhttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/42-oda-projesi-and-aba
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<p>On 9 December <span class="caps">ADA</span> organizes the third edition of Breakfast at Noon at L40 Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz eV in Berlin. Breakfast at Noon is a series of thematic encounters for which <span class="caps">ADA</span> invites guests to present and discuss their work with an audience around a breakfast table. The guests are invited for the specific position they take through their work and the way in which they structure their working processes.</p>
<p>Each breakfast session reflects on questions that come forward from the practice of the invited guests. For this session at L40, <span class="caps">ADA</span> will present their own practice next to the practices of the two, artist initiated, collaborative practices of <a href="http://odaprojesi.blogspot.de/" title="TR ">Oda Projesi</a> and <a href="http://airberlinalexanderplatz.de/" title="DE"><span class="caps">ABA</span>, Air Berlin Alexanderplatz</a>. Each initiative will give a brief presentation about their group’s structure and practice as a collaborative endeavor and we will discuss notions of hospitality, ethics and otherness through looking at the multiple approaches that groups working together have adapted in their working processes. </p>
<p><a href="http://odaprojesi.blogspot.de/">Oda Projesi</a><br />Oda Projesi is an artist collective based in Istanbul and composed of three members, Seçil Yersel, Özge Açıkkol and Güneş Savaş, who turned their collaboration into an art project in 2000. The project members met in 1997 and decided to rent and share an apartment as a studio. Although not intended, the apartment they rented in Galata eventually evolved into a multi-purpose, private and public place. Oda Projesi works with different tools and strategies; working with “neighbours” and with people from different disciplines.</p>
<p><a href="http://airberlinalexanderplatz.de/">ABA</a><br /><span class="caps">ABA</span> is an‘artist-in-residency’ based in the centre of Berlin and offering very personal and time-intensive support to its residents. It was founded in 2009 by Susanne Kriemann and Aleksander Komarov. <span class="caps">ABA</span> has three team members whom all have had a wide variety of experiences in the field of artist-in-residency-programs.</p>
<p><strong>Please Note</strong>: You are kindly requested to reserve a seat by mailing us before the 7th of December. The breakfast will take place at <a href="http://www.rosa-luxemburg-platz.net/index.php/ausstellungen">L40 Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz eV on Linienstraße 40</a>. There will be a maximum of 25 people who can attend. Food and drinks will be served during the breakfast. </p>
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<strong>Practical Information:</strong><br>
Sunday 09 December 2012 | 12:00
- 15:00
<br>Linienstraße 40 , 10178, Berlin.
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:22:29 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/42-oda-projesi-and-abawith 98Weeks and Public Space With a Roof http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/41-2-98weeks-and-public-space-roof
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<p>On 25 November <span class="caps">ADA</span> organizes the second edition of <a href="http://www.adarotterdam.nl/projects/12-break/">Breakfast at Noon</a> at <a href="http://www.kunstvlaai.nl/2012/">Kunstvlaai 2012</a>. Breakfast at Noon is a series of thematic encounters for which <span class="caps">ADA</span> invites guests to present and discuss their work with an audience around a breakfast table. The guests are invited for the specific position they take through their work and the way in which they structure their working processes.</p>
<p>Each breakfast session reflects on questions that come forward from the practice of the invited guests. For this session at Kunstvlaai the two collaborative research based initiatives <a href="http://www.pswar.org/">Public Space With a Roof</a> and <a href="http://www.98weeks.blogspot.nl/">98weeks</a> will give a brief presentation of their work and we will discuss multiple approaches that groups working together have adapted in their working processes, as well as work ethics and the role of audience participation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pswar.org/">Public Space With a Roof</a> (<span class="caps">PSWAR</span>) was founded in 2003 and started by organizing projects in their gallery space at Overtoom 301 in Amsterdam. The space was initiated as a research and a project space with the aim to enable artists to develop and present their ideas, realize collaborative projects and to engage in critical discourse. Since 2007 the gallery has been closed and <span class="caps">PSWAR</span> now develops new projects, which are hosted by different institutions in the Netherlands and abroad. The current members of <span class="caps">PSWAR</span> are Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander and Vesna Madzoski. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.98weeks.blogspot.nl/">98weeks</a>, founded by Marwa Arsanios and Mirene Arsanios in 2007, is an artist’s initiative running a non-profit project space in Beirut. 98weeks is conceived as a research project, that shifts its attention to a new topic every 98 weeks. Focusing on artistic research, combining both theoretical and practical forms of inquiry, their projects take multiple forms such as workshops, community projects and seminars, reading groups, publications and exhibitions.</p>
<p><strong>Please Note:</strong> You are kindly requested to reserve a seat by mailing us. The breakfast will take place at the Conversation Corner during Kunstvlaai in Amsterdam. There will me a maximum of 25 people who can attend. There will be food and drinks served during the breakfast. Please note that you need to <a href="https://shop.ticketscript.com/channel/web2/start-order/rid/X536X4XP/language/en">buy a ticket</a> for the Kunstvlaai festival.</p>
<strong>Practical Information:</strong><br>
Sunday 25 November 2012 | 12:00
- 15:00
<br> Conversation Corner, (former) Sint Nicolaas Lyceum Amsterdam, Prinses Irenestraat 21, 1077 WT, Amsterdam.
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:02:47 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/41-2-98weeks-and-public-space-roofWould it be better if we worked in groups of two...?http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/40-would-it-be-better-if-we-worked-groups-two
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<p>As part of its long-term investigation into collaborative and participatory practices, <span class="caps">ADA</span> will continue its research in Berlin in two parts. Firstly, by activating six reading sessions in which different texts will be discussed and secondly by organizing two, semi-public breakfast sessions with two members of <span class="caps">ADA</span> and selected participants from Berlin and abroad</p>
<p>During these six sessions, texts reflecting on artistic production, modes of communication, political positioning and the meaning produced will be jointly and actively explored in a friendly and relaxed environment. Each <span class="caps">ADA</span> member selected a text from a personal/ artistic position, which reflects on the subject of collaboration and collectivity. The texts were selected in dialogue with the other selected texts, resulting in a connected program. </p>
<p>During the residency we split up the group. This allows for the same text to be read at the same moment at two different locations. With this collective reading exercise, <span class="caps">ADA</span> also investigates possibilities of ‘remote collectivity’.</p>
<p><strong>We kindly ask everyone who is interested in participating in the reading group to read the text in advance. Links to the texts can be found below.</strong></p>
<p>Please note: The Reading Group sessions will be announced in more detail via <span class="caps">ADA</span> Facebook (Please make sure you <em>like</em> us, if you are interested). Each reading group will take place at a different location. Meeting point for the <strong>Berlin Reading Group</strong> is in front of the <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haus_des_Lehrers">Haus des Lehrers</a>, Alexanderstrasse 9, Berlin. The meeting point for the <strong>Rotterdam Reading Group</strong> is <span class="caps">ADA</span>, Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam.</p>
<p>The Reading List: </p>
<p><strong>20 September</strong><br /><a href="http://collabarts.org/?p=69">Production Lines</a> by Irit Rogoff<br /><a href="http://www.e-flux.com/journal/art-as-occupation-claims-for-an-autonomy-of-life-12/">Art as Occupation: Claims for an Autonomy of Life</a> by Hito Steyerl </p>
<p><strong>11 October</strong><br /><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/33040183/Jacques-Derrida-Hostipitality">Hostipitality</a> by Jacques Derrida<br /><a href="http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_3/westmoreland_june2008.pdf">Interruptions: Derrida and Hospitality</a> by Mark W. Westmoreland</p>
<p><strong>25 October</strong><br />The Gift by Marcel Mauss (selected pages)</p>
<p><strong>15 November</strong> On Otherness<br /><a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/15364/">Extending Hospitality: Giving Space, Taking Time</a><br />by Dikeç, Mustafa; Clark, Nigel and Barnett, Clive (book chapter)<br /><a href="http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/videos/on-belief-and-otherness/">On belief and Otherness</a> a video lecture by Slavoj Zizek.</p>
<p><strong>25 November</strong><br />Violence by Slavoj Zizek (Chapter 2 <em>Fear Thy Neigbour as Thyself!</em>)</p>
<p><strong>18 December | 18.30</strong><br /><a href="http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm">The Tyranny of Structurelessness</a> by Jo Freeman aka Joreen</p>
<strong>Practical Information:</strong><br>
Tuesday 18 December 2012 | 18:30
- 20:30
<br>Meeting point: Alexanderstraße 9, 10179 Berlin
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:08:45 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/40-would-it-be-better-if-we-worked-groups-twoADA Residency at AiR Berlin Alexanderplatzhttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/39-ada-residency-air-berlin-alexanderplatz
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View from the balcony of the residency
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<p><span class="caps">ADA</span> has started its residency period at AiR Berlin Alexanderplatz. During the working period at <span class="caps">ABA</span> the group is divided into smaller units’ of two members at a time. Each unit stays in the apartment for a period of three weeks. At the start of each third week working period, another <span class="caps">ADA</span> member arrives to replace one member of the unit.</p>
<p><span class="caps">ADA</span> will use its (dis-)placement in Berlin as a starting point for the investigation on topics relating to the initiation, the performance of and the congregation around knowledge production. As part of its long-term investigation into collaborative and participatory practices, <span class="caps">ADA</span> will continue its research in Berlin in two parts. Firstly, by activating six reading sessions in which different texts will be discussed and secondly by organizing two, semi-public breakfast sessions with two members of <span class="caps">ADA</span> and selected participants from Berlin and abroad.</p>
<p><strong>Please join us for welcome drinks with a view</strong>, on the coming Sunday, the 9th of September from 12.00 to 15.00 at <span class="caps">ABA</span> (10th floor), Alexanderstrasse 13, 10179 Berlin – Alexanderplatz. </p>
<p>For more information about the residency, please go to <a href="http://www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de">www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de</a>.</p>
<strong>Practical Information:</strong><br>
Sunday 09 September 2012 | 12:00
- 15:00
<br>AiR Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alexanderstraße 13, 10179 Berlin
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:03:06 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/39-ada-residency-air-berlin-alexanderplatzOne line can become a word and two, three words can become a storyhttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/38-one-line-can-become-word-and-two-three-words-can-b
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Translation: The monkey is gone/ He climbed into the tree and he is in the jungle/ He swings on a liana he grabs the banana. Done! (Short story by Kiran Moti, 6 years old.)
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<p>Independent writer <a href="http://metropolism.com/archive/searchEnglish?author=2005">Moosje Goosen</a> will lead a writing workshop taking place on three Sunday afternoons in <span class="caps">ADA</span>. The workshop is meant for anybody with an interest in writing but might be of specific interest to those artists and curators who use writing as part of their artistic practice. </p>
<p><strong>Dates:</strong><br />Sunday May 13. 14:00 – 18:00hrs<br />Sunday May 20. 14:00 – 18:00hrs <br />Sunday June 17. 13:00 – 19:00hrs (Includes a simple dinner)</p>
<p>As Vladimir Nabokov said in one of his lectures: ‘Literature was not born the day when a boy crying ‘wolf, wolf’ came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying ‘wolf, wolf’ and there was no wolf behind him.’ Writing is magic: any child in the process of learning to write the letter Aa Aa Aa, then b, c, and so forth, can easily remind you of this. We tend to forget that each letter was, initially, a drawing, crafted by the movement of our own hands: like any other drawing, these written lines can turn into a window to the world, this one or another. </p>
<p>At the same time, learning to write also means that letters lose their peculiarity, so that the written word is prone to become ‘just another’ outlet of language. In our everyday use of writing (beginning with school assignments, then, in our adult lives, the writing of e-mails, a grocery or to-do list, a message on a sticky note or ‘happy birthday’ on a postcard to an uncle) we learn to forget the pleasure of writing ‘wolf, wolf’, just to see where it – all the possible stories of a wolf – might lead to. </p>
<p>This workshop invites a re-cognition of ‘that crafty feeling’ of writing, as novelist Zadie Smith aptly calls it. By means of hands-on exercises, we will read and write collectively and learn what it – ‘wolf, wolf’ – could possibly mean along the way. After a four-week intermission of individual writing, the third and final session will be used for an in-depth group discussion of texts written by the workshop participants.</p>
<p>There will be a minimum of five and a maximum of eight participants in the writing workshop. <strong>Please reserve a place by sending an e-mail by the 1st of May at the latest to Esmé Valk</strong> (see contact details below). The cost for the three sessions is €75,-. Bring your own pens.</p>
<p>Moosje Goosen is an independent writer based in Rotterdam. She contributes regularly to <a href="http://metropolism.com/archive/searchEnglish?author=2005">Metropolis M</a> and <a href="http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/going-dutch/">Frieze</a>, and also writes in the framework of art exhibitions and events. She has written for, or in collaboration with a number of artists, such as Sara van der Heide and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, and is a research/writing member of the Uqbar Foundation, initiated by artists Irene Kopelman and Mariana Castillo Deball. For Uqbar, she is currently in the process of developing a book series, titled <em>A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia</em>, the first two volumes of which (on phantom limbs and dinosaur fictions, respectively) will appear next year.</p>
<p><strong>Practical Information:</strong><br />Sunday 13 May 2012 | 14:00 &#8211; 18:00<br />Sunday 20 May 2012 | 14:00 &#8211; 18:00<br />Sunday 17 June 2012 | 13:00 &#8211; 19:00 including dinner<br /><span class="caps">ADA</span> studios, Delftsestraat 9-B, Rotterdam </p>
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:27:18 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/38-one-line-can-become-word-and-two-three-words-can-bOn residency: an (in)visible production of A.I.R. programmeshttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/37-residency-visible-production-ir-programmes
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<p><span class="caps">ADA</span> has been invited by independent curator Angela Serino to take part in a series of discussions and events in Kunsthuis <span class="caps">SYB</span> as part of her project <em>On residency: an (in)visible production of A.I.R. programmes</em>.</p>
<p>Why do artists choose to take part in a residency? In what ways do the structure of a residency differ from other existing supporting structures for artists, such as the gallery, the project space, the academy or the studio? How can a residency contribute to the development of artists today? Over the coming six weeks, these and other questions will be the focus of the programme <em>On Residency or an (in)visible production</em>, put together by independent curator Angela Serino.</p>
<p>The first two weekends of ‘On Residency’ will be marked by the design of a conceptual and material framework. Serino invited the Italian artist Paula Anziché to build her installation ‘Spaziando’, together with guests and visitors of Kunsthuis <span class="caps">SYB</span>. ‘Spaziando’ is a large and complex net of Lycra in which, during the programme, participants can move and nest themselves, as if it were a collective body. Through this collective, physical interaction with the work, ‘Spaziando’ creates an environment in which new thoughts and ideas can be developed and exchanged.</p>
<p>A second recurring theme in the programme ‘On Residency’ is the reading group, which assembles at different moments in Kunsthuis <span class="caps">SYB</span>. From a collection of texts, this reading group investigates the roles a residency can play in artistic production. The residency is mainly approached as a break from daily routine, as a prerequisite for an investigation into conditions of work and the possibilities to find a better balance between living and working. The reading group consists of the artists’ collectives <span class="caps">ADA</span> (Rotterdam) and The Living Room(s) (Amsterdam), and additionally the visual artist Elsbeth Ciesluk and the art historian Suzie Hermán.</p>
<p>The progress of the investigation can be followed on the ‘weblog’. There, you will find the texts that the reading group discusses. For those who are interested, it is possible to participate in the programme in Kunsthuis <span class="caps">SYB</span> by contacting A. Serino or Kunsthuis <span class="caps">SYB</span> by email or phone.</p>
<p>Angela Serino (1977, IT) is an independent curator. She graduated (cum laude) in Mass Communication at the University of Siena and moved to Amsterdam to attend the De Appel Curatorial programme in 2006. Since then she has curated several solo and group shows in institutions and art organisations, such as De Brakke Grond Amsterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, <span class="caps">TENT</span>. Rotterdam, and the European Cultural Foundation Amsterdam. In 2009 she curated <span class="caps">RED</span> A.i.R./Redlight Art Amsterdam, a project initiated by the City of Amsterdam, De Key/Principaal, <span class="caps">SMBA</span> and Kunstenaars&CO. Since 2010, Angela Serino has been part of the programming committee of Kunsthuis <span class="caps">SYB</span>.</p>
<p><strong>Practical Information:</strong><br />28 March &#8211; 8 May 2012<br />Opening hours work period: every Saturday and Sunday from 13:00 &#8211; 17:00.<br />Kunsthuis <span class="caps">SYB</span>, Hoofdstraat 70, 9244 CP, Beetsterzwaag</p>
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:06:15 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/37-residency-visible-production-ir-programmesDocumenting Documentaryhttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/36-documenting-documentary
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Lightning over Water, (say Cut!) film-still, 1980
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<p><strong>Programme</strong><br />Thursday 22 March | <em>Yuki Yukite Shingun (The emperor’s naked army marches on)</em><br />Wednesday 4 April | <em>Lightning over Water</em><br />Thursday 19 April | <em>The thin blue line</em></p>
<p>Documentary films try to show, unearth and investigate certain truths and values of events taking place in front of the camera’s lense. They seem to suggest that what is being shown is a genuine event, with genuine people and that what you see is as unmediated as possible and hence not fiction. In this way documentaries as a genre open up an interesting space for the filmmaker through their potential to play with the expectations of the viewer. For example by staging or re-enacting past events with the use of actors begins to blur the distinction between fiction and reality, problematizing the relation between the camera and what is real.</p>
<p>The screening series <em>Documenting Documentary</em> contains three films that all use documentary style techniques, in order to examine the boundaries and the relationship between fiction and non-fiction. The screenings are intended as a departure point for discussion about the stylistic conventions and possibilities of documentaries in relation to truth and fiction, knowledge and power and the relation between the apparatus, the subject and the viewer. By integrating ‘behind the camera scenes’ and by creating an awareness of the camera, each of the three films reveal their own production system and in this way become self-reflective.</p>
<p><strong>Yuki Yukite Shingun (The emperor’s naked army marches on)</strong> by Kazuo Hara, 1986<br />Thursday 22 March, 21.00 | Runtime: 122 min.</p>
<p>The first film screened is <em>Yuki Yukite Shingun (The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On)</em> by Kazuo Hara, 1986. This documentary revolves around 62-year-old Okuzaki Kenzo, survivor of the battlefields of New Guinea in World War II. Kenzo gained notoriety by shooting steel pinballs with a slingshot at Emperor Showa in protest against what he considered to be the ruler&#8217;s war crimes. Traveling around to do interviews with survivors and relatives, Kenzo finds the truth of the past hard to grasp, achieving only an important breakthrough when he confronts the ex-sergeant Yamada.</p>
<p><strong>Lightning over Water</strong> by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray, 1980<br />Wednesday 4 April, 21.00 | Runtime: 91 min.</p>
<p>The second film we will show is <em>Lightning over Water</em> by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray. The film documents the last days of Nicholas Ray, who is dying of cancer. Wim Wenders travels to New York to help his friend Ray on his last movie. After discussing the idea they decide it is not realizable due to Ray’s health situation. <br />This ‘semi-documentary’ is an intense and moving portrait of Nicolas Ray and an interesting co-operation between two important filmmakers. </p>
<p><strong>The thin blue line</strong> by Errol Morris, 1988<br />Thursday 19 April, 21.00 | Runtime: 103 min. </p>
<p>The third film in this series is <em>The Thin Blue Line</em>, directed by Errol Morris. The film shows us the true story of the arrest and conviction of Randall Adams, for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976. With its use of expressionistic re-enactments, interview material and music by Philip Glass, this film, structured as a documentary, launched a new kind of non-fiction filmmaking.</p>
<strong>Practical Information:</strong><br>
Thursday 19 April 2012 | 21:00
<br>ADA studios, Delftsestraat 9, Rotterdam
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:14:41 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/36-documenting-documentarywith Škart and Iratxe Jaio &amp; Klaas van Gorkumhttp://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/35-skart-and-iratxe-jaio-klaas-van-gorkum
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Škart, See-Saw Play-Grow, Installation view of the Serbian Pavilion of the 2010 Venice Biennale
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<p>On 10 December <span class="caps">ADA</span> organizes the first edition of <em>Breakfast at Noon</em>, a new series of public events in which two or more guests are invited to ADA’s breakfast table to reflect on issues concerning the position of the artist and the way one speaks through his or her work.</p>
<p>For this first edition the guests will be the Belgrade based collective <a href="http://www.skart.rs">Škart</a> and the artist duo <a href="http://www.parallelports.org">Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum</a>. Both guests have a practice, which connects exhibition making with working with groups and individuals in specific social contexts. <span class="caps">ADA</span> invites Škart, Jaio and van Gorkum to give a brief presentation of their work, and to discuss issues such as the collective art practice, the role of audience participation and the notion of free time in relation to artistic practice.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.skart.rs">Škart</a> is a collective founded in 1990 at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. While experimenting through their work, they focus primarily between the medium of poetry and design. &#8220;Architecture of the human relationships&#8221; is their main concept. Through a constant flux within the collective which has been present since the very beginning, the members collaboratively work to develop new values. They are particularly capable, through the process of making, to embrace 'beautiful&#8217; mistakes and tirelessly strive to combine work with pleasure. Recent exhibitions include the 2010 edition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture; <em>My experience in notebook/Moje iskustvo u svesci</em>, <span class="caps">KCB</span> gallery, Belgrade (2010) and <em>The Origin of Wishes</em>, Space Gallery, London (2009). Skart has also conceived and organised numerous workshops, such as <em>Calendar of lies</em>, Igalo, Montenegro (2010) and <em>Protest Poster</em>, with the group Cactus in London and Graz (2010).</p>
<p>Working collectively since 2001, <a href="http://www.parallelports.org">Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum</a> have worked with film, actions, publications, and installations to create projects that explore the agency of individuals and communities in the context of particular social and political climates. For <em>Plaatselijke verordening</em> (Local ordinance, 2010), the artists located six wooden billboards erected by the city of Rotterdam each time there are local elections to be used as surfaces for political postering. Having replaced the boards with new structures and transferred the old ones into an exhibition venue, Jaio and van Gorkum showed documentation of the territorial and pictorial struggle that had taken place as rival parties deployed their posters in a bid to win publicity. Solo projects include <em>Quédense dentro y cierren las ventanas/ Stay inside. Close Windows and Doors</em>, produced by Consonni, Bilbao, and Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht (2008). Group exhibitions include <em>The People United Will Never Be Defeated</em>, <span class="caps">TENT</span> Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2010); <em>Gure Artea 2008</em>, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2008).</p>
<p><strong>Please Note:</strong> The breakfast will take place at the Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum in Rotterdam. Due to the limited amount of space available (15 guests maximum) you are kindly requested to reserve a spot via info@adarotterdam.nl. The entrance is free, including food and drinks.</p>
<strong>Practical Information:</strong><br>
Saturday 10 December 2011 | 12:00
- 14:00
<br>Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum, Nieuwemarkt 1a, Rotterdam
info@adarotterdam.nl (ADA Rotterdam)Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:48:35 +0100http://www.adarotterdam.nl/event_announcements/35-skart-and-iratxe-jaio-klaas-van-gorkum